Hoge Building

Southeast of Roosevelt Cabin, toward the Martha Berry Highway (U. S. Highway 27), is the two-story, white frame Hoge Building, second oldest building on the main campus and the oldest facility still in active use. In the very earliest days of the schools, Miss Berry had laid out a road across one of the best fields (against the protests of friends such as Judge Wright) and bordered it carefully with elms, explaining that some day there would be a beautiful building at the end of the road. The Hoge Building was erected in this spot in 1905 after a campaign for funds that attracted many small donations. This fund was begun by students, who gave a dollar each. The slogan "A Dollar a Person" was adopted for the campaign, and around $800 of the total cost of $12,000 was raised in one-dollar amounts. Built by students, the Hoge Building was originally designed as a recitation hall with five classrooms and a principal's office on the first floor, an auditorium and a library on the second. In the very earliest days of the schools, Miss Berry had laid out a road across one of the best fields (against the protests of friends such as Judge Wright) and bordered it carefully with elms, explaining that some day there would be a beautiful building at the end of the road. The Hoge Building was erected in this spot in 1905 after a campaign for funds that attracted many small donations. This fund was begun by students, who gave a dollar each. The slogan "A Dollar a Person" was adopted for the campaign, and around $800 of the total cost of $12,000 was raised in one-dollar amounts. Built by students, the Hoge Building was originally designed as a recitation hall with five classrooms and a principal's office on the first floor, an auditorium and a library on the second. When the new brick Recitation Hall (now Green Hall) was opened in 1922, the present Hoge Building became the administration building. Miss Berry's offices were on the second floor; the offices of other administrative officials were downstairs. The Mount Berry Post Office was located in the west end of the first floor. The Hoge Building was used as an administration building for over 40 years. In 1962 a portion of the second floor was seriously damaged by fire; the post office was then moved to the common room of Thomas Berry temporarily, later to the Moon Building, and then to Krannert Center. The second-floor area of the administration building was then remodeled to provide more office space. Upon the recommendation of Berry President John Bertrand in March 1960, the board of trustees voted to name the building for E. H. Hoge, the schools' first comptroller. After Hermann Hall opened in 1964 as the college's main administration building, Hoge Building was slightly remodeled to house the music department and was used for music until the fall of 1978, when the department moved to the Ford Buildings. After further renovations, offices of continuing education and the agriculture department moved into Hoge Building in the fall of 1980. Hoge Building now houses continuing education and, until October 1998, the Georgia Elderhostel director's office. The department of agriculture moved its office to the Westcott Building at the Ford Buildings in 1990. In 1997 the handicrafts operation moved to Hoge Building.

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